While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and said, ‘Take; this is my body.’
What Jesus did with the bread, God also does with us. We are taken into His hands just as we are. We are blessed there, just as we are also. The blessing is first, original, and free. Grace is said over us before anything else -- good or bad. But then we are broken. The blessing can never come without brokenness. We are broken and the brokenness is painful -- beyond painful. But it is also necessary. We we must first be broken before we are ready to be given because what we have to give is only made possible through our brokenness. What we have can only be shared through brokenness. Indeed, our brokenness is what is to be shared with others. For our blessed brokenness taken from the hand of God and given into the hands of others is what has the power to nourish the world. And so there it is: we are taken, blessed, broken, and then given -- the body of Christ shared once more.
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